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72: 22: 405: 195:, where he says: "in the form of understatement, self-deprecation, and its possessor the self-deprecator" (1108a12). In this passage, Aristotle establishes the 329: 40: 376: 400: 363: 344: 58: 395: 166: 227:. Irony entails opposition (not mere difference) between the actual meaning and the apparent meaning of something. 224: 87: 285: 97: 109: 352:
Poetics with Tractatus Coislinianus, Reconstruction of Poetics II and the Fragments of the On Poets.
191: 126:"boaster") by understating his own abilities. The eiron lends his name to the related concept of 71: 359: 340: 325: 177: 145: 105: 322:
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usually succeeded by bringing down his braggart opponent (the
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as one of the main characters of comedy, along with the
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theatre of ancient Greece
Ancient Greek
stock characters
comedy
alazṓn
irony
Greek
Old Comedy
Aristophanes
The Frogs
Dionysus
Cleisthenes (son of Sibyrtius)
Xanthias
philosopher
Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics
irony
classical Greek theatre
Bômolochus
Maieutics
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
Irony
ISBN
978-0-8014-8154-3
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0-14-012480-2

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